I was having a look at the latest Alexa rankings for a few sites that I frequent (Problogger.net, JohnChow.com and CourtneyTutte.com) and I noticed that the Alexa Reach Chart had crashed for each of the sites.
Here is the chart as it looked at 10:00am today:
I’m guessing that this is another temporary issue like the one at Technorati where everyone got a ranking of #1 (see Court’s posting – I have the #1 Blog In The World) but it makes you wonder about the metrics running on some of these sites!
Update: It looks like Alexa has fixed their coding (2:45 pm)
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Tags: alexa rank, problogger, john chow, courtney tuttle, blog, rank mistake, blog summary, multiple streams of income
Even big online money makers have problems… Nobody’s perfect.
Posted by shman | August 9, 2007, 12:24 pmHmm. Whatever was going on, looks like they’ve got it resolved now. All the data for those sites looks good today. Google analytics has dropouts from time to time as well, so I don’t think that by itself is too big of a deal..as long as they get it resolved in a timely manner.
Posted by Zen Zoomie | August 9, 2007, 2:40 pmI’ve heard that this type of thing happens from time to time on Alexa (about once a month from Courtney Tuttle). He said that it’s because they haven’t processed the daily information so the chart drops off. You’d think that if this happens that often that they would change the settings!
Posted by Lewis | August 9, 2007, 10:48 pmI checked today, earlier anyways it appeared they were up and running
Posted by Real Estate Editorial | August 10, 2007, 12:16 pmNo kidding. The difference is that the big online money makers can just laugh off a downed site – they probably get more comments about it and actually increase their readership. The rest of us lose a bunch of our readers!
Posted by Lewis | August 10, 2007, 11:52 pmI guess they read my post and sent the programmers back to work!
Posted by Lewis | August 10, 2007, 11:53 pm